I recently woke up with incredible pain in my face let’s talk about that hi I’m cricket and this is bozo where’s some Oklahoma good mythical morning [Music] mythical morning this episode is brought to you by rode microphones the shotgun mics we use in the field are rode if you got a shotgun mic you need to put a windscreen on it like that one I notice you can use this as a windscreen but I’ve stuck my finger in there and thought you know what this is like a finger mitten good stick it out in really cold weather and give me like my fingers fine because it’s protected okay so as multiple uses thanks for joining us today who we’re gonna get into some pain but it’s gonna be a learning experience and it’s going to be therapeutically gonna for me you’re gonna put me in like a hold or something like a death grip it might come to that depending on what comes up on the wheel at the end I’ve developed a reputation for doing that at this a few days ago I woke up earlier than normal because pain was my alarm clock pain in the face means tire left side of my face was nothing but pain I wake up this is gonna be distracting because you’re talking about the left side of your face and I you know I can’t see it I can’t what here just take a good look at it good no outside signs it looks a lot like the right side so I’ll just picture the right there’s no lacerations you know I went to the bathroom I was like is there isn’t am i bleeding what’s going on I felt like I had been shot sharp pain in the face hey shhh I mean I would I would just call it just an immobilizing pain literally my jaw was immobilized I realized I couldn’t open my mouth it’s like I was like this and I I roll out of bed I go into the kitchen I immediately get some ibuprofen and I start making my coffee I was like you know when things are going bad get the coffee and get the ibuprofen so I make the coffee did you put it up your nose how did you get it in I put the I put the pill in there you’ll feel I and I’ve had took three pair you’ll make that noise when I put them in steel steel steel and then I could not even purse my lips far enough apart I guess purse means put them together anti person my lips enough to drink the coffee D purse disbursed this whole side of my face that the side that I thought had been shot it was just clenched up and I could not open my jaw it was it made me very very scared and then Christy my wife comes in there and I tell her what’s happening I like talking like this and I’m like I can’t open my jaw she says you’ve got TMJ yeah I you know I’ve told you about your jaws popping back there and you know I have that too sometimes I can’t open my job it’s TMJ and I guess she had talked about it before but since it wasn’t happening to me and maybe I ignored her or something yeah I’m not the most compassionate sensitive how the situation I was listening now matter what’s happening I mean she said do you grind your teeth at night I was like well I don’t know you’re the one in bed with me do I grind my teeth at night she’s like I don’t know I’m the one it’s asleep so you know the jury still it’s not like teeth flaking unlike my bed when I wake up in the morning I don’t think that’s how it happened but I am reasonably familiar with this because it one of my recent trips to the dentist maybe I mean like in the past five years uh-huh you go once every five years I go once a year maybe every six months I don’t know okay I try to go pretty regularly but they they always ask you to open and close and they feel bad there you go and she was like oh you’ve got it mean to touch you by the way I regret first of all she didn’t say you have team TMJ everyone has a TMJ that’s like riding the J and TM general at the TM stands for something like thermo and a Mandarin something but the J stands for joins a mouth joint TMJ it’s there although the whole but so Christy’s like I have so I had the issue but I’ve never had the lockup no I had the lockup I mean it’s scary so Christy’s like well you need to call the dentist or maybe a doctor type scenario and I’m like no I don’t I need to give a call to the Internet and so then I just google Karen over my jaw and the great thing about the Internet is that everybody talks about everything that happens to them it’s not just the two of us cooks doing it in this format my right foot is swollen up so here’s your right foot swell right foot is swollen took all that all the time and it’s not even swollen my right index finger is bending backwards next fingers bending backwards what does that say about us well my left middle finger is bending backwards so forums you know forks I love them I was immediately comforted that I’m not alone at this and it does not seem fatal but I’m still faced with this because you can still feed yourself through like through the stomach what just doesn’t kill you it just doesn’t kill you you know but yes I guess you’re through a straw in the mouth it can open a little more through that technically through the nose I once ate through my nose for a week that’s another episode let’s not even pause on that I shouldn’t even acknowledge that good sorry continue so my fear at this point is that am I gonna be like this for the rest of my life spoiler alert I’m no longer like this but you know I’m just thinking am I gonna be that guy who always looks like Dirty Harry like a hey hey funk talking through my teeth help your image you could shave your head and at the same time and like when I was in fourth grade this is how I used to smile for ammo pictures you know like teeth need to be together it’s like am I gonna look like the fourth grade link for the rest of my life like at least in the mouth area so I’m really scared about that and then I go on these website and they’re like cure TMJ and that there’s videos I found this weird linnaeus you put your head on the table and then another guy comes up and throws bangs it nothing they play soft music and a weird dude does a voiceover and then another weird dude lays down on the table with a mirror kind of behind him and it’s just really awkward alternate fighting and opening biting it opening further and further when you reach your easy limit relaxed completely that didn’t make me feel better but the things that didn’t make me photos okay yeah I went to eHow and I love evil it’s just step one step two step three step four Step five your TMJ supposed to be cured step one is don’t don’t choose stuff relax okay that could be a problem now it can turn what I found out well they said just drink stuff so I eat soup and I guess movies all that day they said anything you can swallow whole you can eat and unless you’re a snake that’s like scrambled eggs and smoothies I guess well I’m not a snake I can swallow macaroni whole yes what’s it macaroni ho that’s the fun no like when I mean posh kids I love that joke you can just put it in your mouth and just like a snake you will not choke on macaroni alright the problem with me and I think what got me into this whole predicament is not grinding teeth but over chewing we talked about this before my grandma trained me as a dental assistant well she was assistant she trained me to thoroughly chew my food so now I have a conscience all that because he was at I have the jaws of an 80 year old no no you I’ve eaten a lot of meals with you and I’m I’m a under chewer we talked about this before and urine over to her I believe that I have chewed the number of times of an average like 12 year old I’ve tuned of an 80 year Anna you have chewed multiple lifetimes there is no doubt in my mind you choose so many times you know your joint the other day the other day was a wake up call the mouth joint is done my friend so they say don’t sing don’t yawn don’t do all these things basically the the medical explanation is that your jaw is the muscle that attaches back here there’s a lot of pain right at the ear that’s where it attaches it even hurts right now at the top of them right here to here there’s a muscle that seizes up and it’s like a mountain you get a knot in your back they have to massage it out take this situation this is this is that jaw muscle seizing up you’re not about to ask me to massage your mouth every no they give you exercise to do to yourself and one of which they say on eHow is push up with your thumb and then open your mouth so you’re pushing down with the opposite muscles from the ones that are clenching and you’re working those and it actually helps this muscle that’s clenched up to relax so you slowly open your mouth and I mean I at first I couldn’t open it more than this all right hello yeah you slowly open your mouth and there is a lot of pain and I wasn’t willing to do it so I went to bed and they also said lay on your back don’t lay on your side or don’t lay on your face because that’s gonna make it worse you know so I tried to lay on my back go to sleep all night with my mouth like slightly gaped open but your mouth I mean whenever we fly on a plane I know that you’re asleep when I look over there you’re going when the mouth is gaped you know I’m in dreaming usually that’s within five take them see I don’t grind my teeth that’s what I’m thinking but it could just be stress you know I’m under a lot of stress with my working conditions I’ve put stuff in there before while you were sleeping just to let you know okay like a mint I did it once I don’t even want to know because yet okay um it took a minute but I wake up the next morning and it is worse people it has gotten worse so then I go back to the Hanwha alright I’m gonna do these exercises I don’t care if it’s painful and they say try not to make your jaw pop cuz you know when you get to a certain point it’ll didn’t pop open that’s my little queasy when the hinge when the hinge ball when the bone comes out of the hinge a little bit that’s when it’s popping that’s what that is like a snake but I got to this point where I was like oh and then I had a choice to make I had to take it over the line or just live like this the rest of my life and it was I just what do you mean pop my jaw all the way open or just give up and I say you know what I’m gonna do it and I went and I even had to go in like this ah it even hurts a little bit now still doing it it was like I was rescuing a child from the mouth of an alligator or something you can’t do that it’s been pretty like a snapping turtle I mean it was not difficult to get my mouth open and I opened it oh it order and I give this point and then I start thinking oh my gosh I’m about to pop open bust open my jaw and I’m gonna restart all right let’s pull all AI or that’s impossible I’m gonna be the guy who looks constantly surprised or like he’s yelling silently like I’m walking around grocery store I think I think if it was possible that could happen there would be other people like that and no one’s like this they don’t go out would you go out like roll permits they’re all sitting a cyborg [Music] you’re saying you know I should not have done those exercises Valerie how finish or egg or spank though over my cup so I went and I went for it and it didn’t go it just went and I held it for 10 seconds took some cleansing breaths and it went from pain to actually feeling good like it was stretching out like and then pull it back down and there was a little relief and then every 30 minutes I would do that and then I would I would I sit I would heat it sometimes beforehand and then I iced it afterward and I’ll do the exercises every 30 minutes or so all day yesterday woke up this morning new man it still hurts a little bit here cuz you’re messing with us there there is hope for you people if you wake up like that as long as you weren’t actually shot in the face do that exercise if you were shot in the face don’t go on the internet or eval or to our channel on YouTube go to the emergency room but otherwise I mean just you know let’s do this Oh link turns rat into Frankenstein okay I’m gonna time the lightning and when the Lightning times perfectly I will arise the Beast the bearded weird looking eyebrow raising Beast three two [Music] [Music] thank you I think you’ve a TMJ disorder have a mint [Music]